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Scorchingwilde wrote: Fri Dec 26, 2025 10:50 pm I used to feel similarly, but recently I've become more staunchly anti-death penalty. I'd like to recommend a leftist youtuber's video if you'll consider it, Jacob Geller's Fantasies of Nuremberg for my general perspective. It's not until near the end that he shares his emotional experience and thoughts about the delivery of the death penalty, but I found it profound myself.

Very interesting video. I recalled the trials against the leaders of the Juntas; I recommend the film Argentina, 1985 about them. Even though the main prosecutor had collaborated with the regime, they were handled better in my opinion than the Nuremberg trials. The trial did not come from an external power, and prison for life was the maximum sentence. Perhaps more important were the mountains of evidence and victim testimonials. I suppose death penalties would have added no benefit.

I see no situation when the death penalty should apply. Mistakes are made all the time in the justice system and even if a mistake isn't made, an executed person is having their punishment cut short by an act of legal murder.